Failed Quotes

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There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd… — Charles Bukowski
it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with. — Charles Bukowski
There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt.… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do. — Marcel Duchamp
I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that… — Claire Messud
They're true," I replied defiantly. "I came here to kill you. And if I can't do that, then I'd rather die." "You failed, you know.… — Richelle Mead
The grandeur of the Institute never failed to impress Magnus - the way it towered high and mighty above everything else, timeless and unmoving in… — Cassandra Clare
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. — William James
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I… — Thomas A. Edison
I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying. — Jeff Bezos
Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at one time or… — Carleton Young
Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your… — Og Mandino
I failed my way to success. — Thomas A. Edison
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. — Robert F. Goheen
Thankfully dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. So whatever your dream… — Stephen Colbert
Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and… — C.S. Lewis
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates… — George Bernard Shaw
Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't. — Unknown Author
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by… — Preston Brooks

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